From an Old Notebook

Helsinki. Sitting in Stridberg Cafe. Reagan's CIA and State Department are passing out glossy, full color brochures detailing Soviet arms buildup. The brochures look like the ones you get at the auto dealership. Hypothetical Russian jet fighters and fighter bombers look incredibly shiny.

Trouble is, there's no Soviet arms buildup. The Soviets can't even build a municipal water treatment plant without western help. The Finns build European high rise hotels so the westerners will visit and spend valuable tourist dollars.

Russia is a paper bear.

Who is giving Reagan all that glossy, false information?

As "Deep Throat" says in "All The President's Men": "Follow the money."

From a notebook, 1983

Sound familiar?

S.K.

Comments

[Wren]

Too familiar.

Thanks for the link, Connie and Steve.